safe deposit boxes?

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

Anyone got a comparison of Somerville safe deposit boxes? Cost? Hours of operation? Do you need an account with the bank?

I know the Eastern Bank branch in Davis does not offer them, but the one at Alewife does.

I can't help it. I was born sneering.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Edit: For anyone who's keeping track, I received my very own letter this morning, at my work address, addressed to me using a middle initial which I don't use socially but which appears on official records.

The letter arrived several hours after I'd written a parody referencing myself as one of the people affected by the threatened lawsuit. Admittedly, I did post a single comment on one of the contested posts. However, I'd much prefer to think either that I'm psychic or that there's a blue police box in my future.

Further edit: My mother received a copy of the letter, addressed to me, at her home address (where I was once, briefly registered to vote while I was between apartment leases in two other cities). She is very upset. To avoid any further risk of involving my family in this mess, I've removed the potentially objectionable content.

New post added to JonMon lawsuit

[cos]

Fascinating. I never commented on the original post this lawsuit seems to be about, but yesterday I received one of those letters to notify me that I'm one a "Doe Defendant" that will be added to the lawsuit. This letter tells me I'm being added because of my posts at both the original post (where I actually did not comment at all) and also this recent post - the one where ron_newman first told us that he's being sued. So... it looks like JonMon is watching the new posts and adding people to the lawsuit as they comment? In any case, the URL of that newer post is in the letter.

As in the other letters, he informs me that he holds copyright to this letter and implies that because of that, he can "prohibit anyone from publishing or disclosing it in whole or in part". Kinda wacky. Copyright doesn't actually give him the right to prohibit disclosure, and even directly quoting it "in part" for the purpose of commentary or criticism is fair use (which is what I'm doing here).

Return address, BTW, is PO Box 391512, Cambridge MA 02139

PayPal Set up for legal fees

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

icecreamempress has been kind enough to set up a paypal donation bucket for legal fees. The email is: friendsofdavissquarelj@gmail.com.

(I removed the button because Paypal is fussy about these things- see comments)

There is also a Go Fund Me bucket here: http://www.gofundme.com/2u9m6o


She has also offered to set up a PO Box at the Post Office, if people think it's a good idea. Thoughts? EDIT: We will be doing that.

Edit to add: I am meeting with Ron later today to hash out some details of how to manage this money, we will keep everyone updated. We thought it would be a good idea to start the fund now.

We haven't incurred legal fees yet, but it's pretty much a guarantee that we will, even with pro bono counsel. If a miracle occurs where we don't, we will be keeping track of who donated how much so we can refund.

I am Ron Newman

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

An open letter to Jonathan Graves Monsarrat,

I'm having a very hard time trying to understand you. You obviously are a fairly intelligent person, but you have just done an amazingly ignorant thing. By going after Ron Newman and others from this community with a legal claim, you have exponentially increased the number of people who now know about your past. Frankly, after 3 years, most people have forgotten about you.

If I was a psychiatrist, maybe I could theorize why someone craves attention to such an extent that they are willing to have every shameful thing from their past out into the open.

Jon, you are a pervert. There is no mistaking that. It is both not libel to state the truth and calling someone a pervert is an opinion. Links to your past behavior can be found here and many other places. It is not a "witch hunt". Why would so many people claim similar experiences with you? What would be the point of making it all up?

The most important question is why would you sue? You think you are going to cleanse the internet from mentions of your perversions? What you have done is create THOUSANDS of more pages linking your name with your past. AND YOU KNOW THIS WOULD RESULT.

You can go after Ron Newman and 10 more "Ron Newman's" will pop back up. In fact, Ron Newman actually had nothing bad to say about you and is universally respected by the Davis Square community.

I'm a Doe!

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

Here I was thinking that I was going to be overlooked by the lawsuit, but lo and behold I got a letter in my mailbox today, citing this post in Zen Running Order, which doesn't mention any names, but does point to the news article that started it all. Oh, and it's from February 2010, which means the statute of limitations is past. I did point to the mix in a recent thread, and am pointing to it again here, so I suppose that's the impetus.

I wonder if he's going to try to track down all the people who commented on the mix. Because I'm sure somebody saying that they like Thee Headcoats' cover of "She's Just Fifteen" is seriously injurious to his well-being.

Mind's Eye Yarns will survive!

[ron_newman]

An email from John Howard on the Porter Square Neighbors mailing list:

"I just talked with Lucy at Minds Eye Yarns. She has found a buyer. Lucy and her mom will continue to live upstairs and rent the store to the new owner. It's nice to see a local business survive."

[Earlier post here]

Jealous kittens

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

It seems Nicholas and Humphrey are dismayed at being left out of the current debacle.

Documenting the saga of jonmon on Twitter

[ds-crier.livejournal.com]

I am documenting the saga of jonmon, 140 characters at a time. Follow me at @ds_crier (https://twitter.com/ds_crier). I will post new developments as they happen. I'm hoping that this will help spread the word as to what has been going on here.

Edited to update Twitter handle (it had been atrkurha).